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July 21, 2009
Electallujah! Reverend Billy Takes on Bloomberg, Corporate Hegemony and Consumerism
Fog City Journal
By Sunny Angulo and Andy Blue
Atlantic Yards is Reverend Billy's posterproject for Bloomberg-supported boondoggles:
“We’ve shopped ourselves to death. The enormous shopping utopias that Mike Bloomberg had envisioned - just huge projects, some of them the biggest urban renewal projects ever seen in history - they’re killing us. One of them here in Brooklyn involved 16 skyscrapers, the Atlantic Yards Project, a very controversial project. It’s getting smaller and smaller over time, but that’s because the community continues to rise up against it. The government is in such a state of chaos out here in New York now, the community is actually becoming emboldened. It’s a very encouraging time for facing down abusive development. In the case of Atlantic Yards, it was tax-payer financed and led by a billionaire, through a very narrow kind cultural design, really created for 28-year old stockbrokers. Shopping, shopping, shopping - no street lights at all, all glassy, metal and stone hard fronts, with additional space for the 20,000 new cars expected everyday.
Posted by lumi at July 21, 2009 4:55 AM